Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...herself to new conditions. A series of reforms were already in effect before the Manchu dynasty was overthrown. Of these, the educational policy underwent the most radical change. Western scientific courses were introduced, and the examinations on old classics were abolished. Today schools for new learning stand on the ground of the spacious examination halls...
...Trustees of the Endowment, in the brief they have filed, object to the Agreement on the ground that it gives to Technology complete control of the work of education and research in the applied sciences which, under the Gordon McKay Endowment, is entrusted to Harvard. In support of this position they urge that by the Agreement, the Faculty of Technology, enlarged by the addition of certain members of the teaching staff of the University, is given full charge of the work under the executive control of the President of Technology; that the Faculty of Technology so enlarged will consist...
...fully as interesting as last year's. The second team schedule is also being arranged, and will be somewhat longer than usual. All the home matches of both teams will be played on the new courts on Divinity Field which are to be completed as soon as the ground is in good condition. Some arrangements for spectators are also being planned...
...bottom the only ground for mutual understanding must be intellectual; and to the failure to appreciate this fact must be attributed the slow growth of Pan-Americanism in the wider sense. Most Americans have never even considered the possibility of the existence of large and influential universities in the South. As Professor Lima says in an interview which the CRIMSON prints today, the intercourse of the southern universities has been almost exclusively with the institutions of Europe. America has gone her own way in ignorance of and indifference to the intellectual and economic growth of South America. Harvard has already...
...holes are dug at this season because other work is slack, and because when the ground is frozen on the surface and the frost does not go too deep, less damage is done to the lawns and turf, and the digging is scarcely less difficult than at another season...